According to Cambridge...

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According to Cambridge...

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

Actually, I was under the impression that they cant be in total chaos from the original lettering, some of the original shape must remain intact.

And I believe to be more precise, the brain not only doesn't read all the letters, it image match's with memory the shape of the word. Which is awsome when you look at image recognition with machines compared to human brain. We are thousands of times more sensitive.

As an example to the recognition of shape, try reading your first post on a huge font size, like 32. Its much different reading it small like 10 or 12. The difference in the time it takes to recognize is vast.

Originally posted by dbgt goten Actually, I was under the impression that they cant be in total chaos from the original lettering, some of the original shape must remain intact.

And I believe to be more precise, the brain not only doesn't read all the letters, it image match's with memory the shape of the word. Which is awsome when you look at image recognition with machines compared to human brain. We are thousands of times more sensitive.

As an example to the recognition of shape, try reading your first post on a huge font size, like 32. Its much different reading it small like 10 or 12. The difference in the time it takes to recognize is vast.

Yeah I didn't read the actual research I just read an article about it and that's the example they gave. Good point on the font though.

I could read what you said in your post without any hesitation at all, it was like they were perfectly written.

About the image matching thing, that is completely correct. I always aced my spelling classes back in elementary school because I would just remember what the word looked like, and I could just think of the looks of it and get it correct.

I think that applies only to a person's native language.
My opinion is that anyone who reads English as a second language wouldn't fare too well understanding what this
thread is about. Suppose you read Spanish as a second language. Do you think you could read someone's scrambled epsnaol spelling as easily as you do English?

Remove the line with the error messages and you should be fine (i forgot to remove it). The code you see now should work (no extra headers needed; sstream defines string)
Strange that CodeWarrior compiled my erroneous code.